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Libghostty is coming


Mitchell Hashimoto Libghostty Is Coming Over two years ago, in one of my first public talks about Ghostty, I shared my vision for libghostty: an embeddable library for any application to embed their own fully functional, modern, and fast terminal emulator. Libghostty is finally starting to take shape, and I'm excited to share more details about my plans for it.

Over two years ago, in one of my first public talks about Ghostty, I shared my vision for libghostty: an embeddable library for any application to embed their own fully functional, modern, and fast terminal emulator. And hosting providers like Vercel or Render implement a simple form of terminal emulation allowing line clearing and redrawing within build logs as well as parsing colors. For example, Jediterm doesn't handle intermediates correctly, causing the widely supported "change cursor shape" sequence to swallow a character in every JetBrains editor at the time of this post.

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